Respond to texts drawn from a range of cultures and experiences (ACELY1655)

Understand patterns of repetition and contrast in simple texts (ACELY1448)

Discuss characters and events in a range of literary texts and share personal responses to these texts, making connections with students’ own experiences (ACELT1582)

Comprehension

Use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning about key events, ideas and information in texts that they listen to, view and read by drawing on grown knowledge of context, text structures and language features (ACELY1660)

Word Knowledge

Use short vowels, common long vowels, consonant digraphs and consonant blends when writing, and blend these to read single syllable words (ACEA1458)

Understand that a letter can represent more than one sound and that a syllable must contain a vowel sound (ACELA1459)

Links to other curriculum areas

Science

Living things have a variety of external features (ACSSU017)

Each individual text type covers a number of content descriptions across the Language, Literature and Literacy strands of Australian Curriculum English. The detailed lesson plans save valuable planning time and allow for individual student differences. Use all, or some, of the ideas provided to cater to the needs of your class.

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